Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,823 7,208 11,380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.28% 12.71% 12.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.16% 13.43% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,163 5,125 8,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £210
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 278 454
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.65 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.97 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.64
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +16.02% -3.78%
75th Percentile £21.64 £23.94 £22.67
90th Percentile £31.34 £39.72 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.95 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -6.21% +9.68% +0.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,655 53,675 84,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.62% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,814 37,483 59,176
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,482 2,013
10th Percentile £12.80 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £75.98 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 4,174 £475 -2.56% 2,298
UK excluding London +1 2,314 £425 - 1,465
London -1 2,114 £525 - 1,116
Work from Home -2 1,584 £488 +2.63% 904
South East -4 507 £448 +4.19% 522
North of England 0 503 £450 - 360
Midlands 0 348 £400 -5.88% 211
Scotland +1 325 £413 -2.94% 81
South West +3 323 £475 - 125
North West -1 294 £445 +4.76% 213
East of England +2 287 £410 +2.50% 147
West Midlands 0 240 £423 -6.11% 122
Yorkshire -4 173 £450 -10.00% 119
East Midlands +3 104 £363 -9.38% 83
North East +8 35 £435 +8.75% 31
Wales -6 26 £388 -3.13% 28
Northern Ireland -10 16 £338 -15.63% 22

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,348 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 1,267 (26.27%) Finance
3 820 (17.00%) Agile
4 782 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
5 740 (15.34%) Microsoft
6 695 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 640 (13.27%) SQL
8 617 (12.79%) Security Cleared
9 520 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 484 (10.04%) Banking
10 484 (10.04%) Business Analysis
11 452 (9.37%) Degree
12 450 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
13 431 (8.94%) Windows
14 409 (8.48%) Power Platform
15 400 (8.29%) Power BI
15 400 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
16 395 (8.19%) Azure
17 393 (8.15%) Public Sector
18 384 (7.96%) Analytics
19 383 (7.94%) Customer Service
20 382 (7.92%) ITIL
21 376 (7.80%) SC Cleared
22 371 (7.69%) Data Analysis
23 352 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
24 348 (7.22%) Python
25 346 (7.17%) Requirements Gathering
26 324 (6.72%) User Stories
27 319 (6.61%) Migration
28 306 (6.34%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 140 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 128 (2.65%) Confluence
3 75 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.85%) CMS
5 36 (0.75%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 11 (0.23%) Apache
8 10 (0.21%) MTS
8 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.083%) Appian
12 3 (0.062%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) LiveLink
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.021%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.021%) OpenStack
Applications
1 400 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 126 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.21%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.083%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 43 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.81%) Endur
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 26 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.44%) Aligne
7 19 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 17 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.21%) EuroRunner
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
13 7 (0.15%) SAP PM
13 7 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 409 (8.48%) Power Platform
2 395 (8.19%) Azure
3 301 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
4 151 (3.13%) AWS
5 90 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (1.37%) SaaS
7 64 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
7 64 (1.33%) Snowflake
8 56 (1.16%) Entra ID
9 46 (0.95%) Google Analytics
9 46 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 34 (0.70%) GCP
10 34 (0.70%) PowerApps
11 32 (0.66%) OCI
12 29 (0.60%) Collibra
13 27 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 27 (0.56%) Google Workspace
13 27 (0.56%) OneDrive
14 23 (0.48%) WhatsApp
15 16 (0.33%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.97%) Firewall
2 58 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
3 42 (0.87%) DNS
4 37 (0.77%) Network Security
5 36 (0.75%) VPN
6 33 (0.68%) Wireless
7 32 (0.66%) DHCP
8 30 (0.62%) WAN
9 25 (0.52%) LAN
10 23 (0.48%) TCP/IP
11 22 (0.46%) Internet
12 13 (0.27%) Skype
13 12 (0.25%) Intranet
13 12 (0.25%) SAN
14 11 (0.23%) MPLS
15 10 (0.21%) BGP
16 7 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
16 7 (0.15%) VLAN
17 6 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
17 6 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (8.29%) Power BI
2 162 (3.36%) Tableau
3 94 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 88 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.77%) Metadata
7 36 (0.75%) Big Data
8 34 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 33 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 30 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 24 (0.50%) Looker
14 23 (0.48%) Oracle Database
14 23 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
14 23 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.44%) SAP HANA
16 18 (0.37%) GIS
17 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 270 (5.60%) JIRA
2 51 (1.06%) Postman
2 51 (1.06%) Selenium
3 36 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.54%) TestRail
5 22 (0.46%) WebDriver
6 18 (0.37%) Eclipse
6 18 (0.37%) Git
7 17 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 14 (0.29%) JMeter
8 14 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.21%) Subversion
11 9 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.19%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.17%) Appium
12 8 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.17%) PyCharm
12 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 1,348 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 1,267 (26.27%) Finance
3 782 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 484 (10.04%) Banking
5 393 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 170 (3.52%) Retail
7 158 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 156 (3.23%) Front Office
9 137 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 134 (2.78%) Legal
11 120 (2.49%) Back Office
11 120 (2.49%) Investment Banking
12 113 (2.34%) Marketing
13 110 (2.28%) Manufacturing
14 109 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 101 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
16 76 (1.58%) Local Government
17 72 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 58 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
19 48 (1.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (0.97%) XML
2 43 (0.89%) .NET
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 29 (0.60%) SailPoint
4 27 (0.56%) Middleware
5 19 (0.39%) JSON
6 18 (0.37%) HTML
7 17 (0.35%) ADO
7 17 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.27%) SOAP
9 12 (0.25%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.25%) Web Services
10 11 (0.23%) LDAP
11 10 (0.21%) IDoc
11 10 (0.21%) PySpark
11 10 (0.21%) REST
12 9 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.17%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.15%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 179 (3.71%) Product Ownership
3 110 (2.28%) Derivative
4 87 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
5 81 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 70 (1.45%) Hedge funds
8 68 (1.41%) Equities
9 64 (1.33%) Fixed Income
10 60 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (1.04%) Credit Risk
13 49 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 44 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 42 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
15 42 (0.87%) NHS
16 39 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (0.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 38 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 431 (8.94%) Windows
2 155 (3.21%) Windows 10
3 117 (2.43%) Linux
4 59 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.00%) Unix
6 46 (0.95%) Android
7 41 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.46%) Windows 7
9 20 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.10%) Debian
15 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.083%) VMS
17 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.021%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (17.00%) Agile
2 695 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
3 520 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 484 (10.04%) Business Analysis
5 450 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
6 384 (7.96%) Analytics
7 383 (7.94%) Customer Service
8 382 (7.92%) ITIL
9 371 (7.69%) Data Analysis
10 352 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
11 346 (7.17%) Requirements Gathering
12 324 (6.72%) User Stories
13 319 (6.61%) Migration
14 306 (6.34%) Project Management
15 274 (5.68%) User Acceptance Testing
16 265 (5.49%) Change Management
17 226 (4.69%) Incident Management
18 224 (4.64%) Data Modelling
19 217 (4.50%) Decision-Making
19 217 (4.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 640 (13.27%) SQL
2 348 (7.22%) Python
3 92 (1.91%) C#
4 77 (1.60%) Java
4 77 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.02%) R
6 38 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 34 (0.70%) VBA
8 30 (0.62%) C++
9 23 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 22 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 22 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (0.35%) C
13 16 (0.33%) VBScript
14 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.21%) ABAP
16 9 (0.19%) VB
17 8 (0.17%) Bash
17 8 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 617 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 452 (9.37%) Degree
3 376 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 229 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 73 (1.51%) CISSP
6 62 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (0.95%) CISM
9 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 44 (0.91%) A+ Certification
11 43 (0.89%) MCSA
12 35 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (0.73%) MCP
13 27 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 26 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (0.52%) ACCA
15 25 (0.52%) CIMA
15 25 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 23 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (4.37%) QA
2 200 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.32%) PMO
4 138 (2.86%) SLA
5 98 (2.03%) GDPR
6 76 (1.58%) NIST
7 69 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 25 (0.52%) GxP
9 25 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 22 (0.46%) EMIR
12 21 (0.44%) MiFID
13 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
13 19 (0.39%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) NCSC
15 17 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.35%) GRC
16 16 (0.33%) IFRS
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 275 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.29%) Firmware
3 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.19%) Docker
6 8 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.10%) vSphere
8 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.062%) XenApp
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.021%) Samba
11 1 (0.021%) Snort
11 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.021%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 47 (0.97%) SCCM
2 41 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
3 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (0.29%) Nessus
4 13 (0.27%) Ansible
5 11 (0.23%) Nagios
6 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (0.21%) Terraform
7 9 (0.19%) Kibana
7 9 (0.19%) logstash
8 8 (0.17%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.15%) BladeLogic
9 7 (0.15%) Control-M
9 7 (0.15%) Grafana
9 7 (0.15%) QRadar
9 7 (0.15%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
11 5 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 740 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 237 (4.91%) SAP
3 221 (4.58%) Oracle
4 207 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 107 (2.22%) Citrix
6 93 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.60%) Google
8 66 (1.37%) Alteryx
8 66 (1.37%) Splunk
9 53 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 45 (0.93%) VMware
11 39 (0.81%) Apple
12 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.62%) Ariba
14 29 (0.60%) Adobe
14 29 (0.60%) Cisco
15 28 (0.58%) LogRhythm
16 25 (0.52%) Databricks
17 24 (0.50%) Darktrace
18 21 (0.44%) FireEye